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...Japan as an excuse to land hundreds of marines, exact abject apologies from Chinese authorities (TIME, Oct. 5), and even now the Chinese restaurant proprietor is forced to call every day upon the Japanese marine commander in Shanghai and report what progress is being made in catching the Chinese thrower of that pear core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pain in the Heart | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...ruin; and all fetters and bonds shall be broken and rent. . . . In this din shall the heavens be cloven, and the sons of Muspell ride thence: Sutr shall ride first and both before and after him burning fire." Leading the giants is the traitor Loki, holding a flame thrower, and Frey, who opposes him is swept by flames. Thor, the thunder god, rushes to the attack, wielding his mighty workman's hammer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

Judging from the holes that graduation made in the team, a lot of spirit and hard work will be necessary. Milt Green was consistently good for three first places. Norm Cahners won a lot of points. Dick Johnson was as good a javelin thrower as there was in the east. Then there was John Dorman in the middle distance runs. Gorry Downer, Bob Hall, Mal Millard, and even Bob Playfair once in a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners Start Season in Dillon Field House as Mikkola Addresses Group | 12/3/1936 | See Source »

...legend known as "The Twilight of the Gods". Here the final battle between Gods and Giants is taking place, with the Gods ranged on the left, armed with spears and halberds, facing the Giants on the right, who are fitted out with gas masks, cylinders and a flame thrower. Mr. Rubenstein is attempting to represent the attack of the Giants on Asgard, the home of the Gods, where such a great struggle took place that the earth trembled, and wiped out the existing race. This animated scene has been translated by commotion-seekers into the attack of Nazidom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAZI vs. NIEBELUNG | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

Irked when a whiskey bottle sailed by his head, Bandleader Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who recently was floored by Dancer George White, cut short his band music, stepped out onto a Toronto dance floor, strode up to a dancer whom he suspected as the bottle-thrower, knocked him flat. Greatly upset was Bandleader Vallee to discover later he had smacked the wrong man, Moffet Dunlap, scion of a wealthy Toronto family. To the Dunlap estate he hastily sped, apologized. Mumbled he: "I didn't hit him very hard. I greatly regret the whole affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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